Podcast recommendations

We have TV, film and music covered. Do we have a podcast thread that I cannot find in the 80 odd pages on here?

Been dipping in and out of Scroobius Pips distraction pieces podcast for a while and now listening to Adam Buxton and Richard Herring (they do seem to chat to a lot of the same people) plus Dawn O'Porter.

Any other recommendations for me or anyone else for that matter (I understand there are lots of footbal ones)

Seriously - BBC docs from Radio 4, diverse as hell (I listened to a doc about a font/typeface lost from the early 20th century. Bloody fascinating)

This is consistently fascinating. Great one this week on marriages between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Another favourite of mine is Getting Better Acquainted - a bloke who goes round conducting in depth interviews with everyone he knows. Topics of discussion obviously depend on the guest, but it's fascinating to hear ordinary people open up about their lives.

I'm in varying levels of crises with both of my main podcasts right now. Football Weekly, which used to be one of my faves, is raising moments where I think "you don't know what you're talking about, you cunt". And that's me, Mr Knows Fuck All About Football, Football Weekly's key demographic. I think the show is starting to realise this too, mercilessly ripping one of the prime suspects in my brand new conspiracy theory, that people on Football Weekly might not know what they're talking about.

Football Ramble has embraced the commercial dream. It is dragging it's arse to ACAST, the network in which podcasting has been monetised, and half their shows are now adverts for their own, or other shit.

Lord Duckhunter
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29 September 2016
- Last edited 29 September 2016

Listen to plenty whilst walking the dog .

Best football one is The Game ,provided Alyson Rudd isn't on .

The Spectator is pretty good .

Far and away my favourite is The Two Mikes. The format of two old soaks sat there waffling on with Mike Parry coming out with some complete and utter bollocks should be boring , but it's a great listen .

RHLSTP is fantastic stuff. Some mad bits and some genuinely insightful and touching. Impressive guest list as well. For those of us that were brought up in an era where the format was nailed down to the constraints of TV scheduling ( Wogan, Parkinson) these type of podcasts are an exciting breath of fresh air.

Far and away my favourite is The Two Mikes. The format of two old soaks sat there waffling on with Mike Parry coming out with some complete and utter bollocks should be boring , but it's a great listen .

I once had the misfortune of listening to the Two Mikes, late at night, on the way back to Liverpool.

I was so struck by Parry's delivery that the minute I got in, tweeted the station telling them to "enjoy coke responsibly, boys!"

I'm off to the Football Ramble live show in Winchester tonight. It's on as part of the comedy festival, so I'll want money back if I don't shit myself laughing.

If they spend half the fucking show promoting themselves, please tell them to stop.

You're not happy about that, are you? I think it's fair enough. I make a podcast and it takes up a lot of time and money, for something I give away for free. There's got to come a point, when you spend as much time as they do, where it has to start paying, and you go for some combination of adverts, paid additional content, or subscription. If I wanted to make a show as often as they do, I'd need to go part-time at work, as would my co-host and producer.

They've got zero idea where the line is. I'm getting to the point where I'm not going to listen to them anymore, as I did with talkSPORT.

From the outset, their Friday show has been a heavy corporate betting tie-in. Don't usually bother downloading that, but I understand the proposition.

Now it seems that their entire business model is about trolling people onto ACAST.

They, and you, can play it much smarter. Lots of podcasters already do. Herring's doing a kickstarter. If the Ramble had played it smart, they'd have waited a year, left the good vibes about the Ramble relatively intact, and come back with a new show. What they've actually done is decide they want to capitalise on the existing brand, fucking it up in the process.

They've got zero idea where the line is. I'm getting to the point where I'm not going to listen to them anymore, as I did with talkSPORT.

From the outset, their Friday show has been a heavy corporate betting tie-in. Don't usually bother downloading that, but I understand the proposition.

Now it seems that their entire business model is about trolling people onto ACAST.

They, and you, can play it much smarter. Lots of podcasters already do. Herring's doing a kickstarter. If the Ramble had played it smart, they'd have waited a year, left the good vibes about the Ramble relatively intact, and come back with a new show. What they've actually done is decide they want to capitalise on the existing brand, fucking it up in the process.

Well, one of them is from Pompey

And most of them have gigs elsewhere that pay the bills.

That's fair enough. I don't enjoy the commercial aspect of it either. But it becomes a necessity if you want to grow to a certain level.

I'd never have any advertising on my show, on principle. But then that means that we'll probably never get many more listeners than we already have, and we can't spend what we'd like to on improving it.